In this post, we gonna see how easy it is to unzip a file using PowerShell.
Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive module has been introduced in PowerShell 5 with Expand-Archive cmdlet. Expand-Archive cmdlet allows you to easily unzip archives from the command line. The following example unzips the archive download.zip to a new folder in the current directory.
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expand-archive -path 'c:\users\arjun\desktop\download.zip' -destinationpath '.\extracted' |
Note that if you omit the -DestinationPath parameter, PowerShell will automatically create a new folder using the name of the zip archive. In the example above, the new folder would then be download.
We can list all the available methods of Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive module with below command.
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Get-Command -Module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive |
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I am Arjun from Hyderabad (India). I have been working as a software engineer from the last 7+ years, and it is my passion to learn new things and implement them as a practice. Aside from work, I like gardening and spending time with pets.
